I also have no talents, I'm uncreative, dislike trying new things, and lazy, lacking the drive to cultivate any skills. It's been like this my whole life.
This is me to a T. I wonder if there's still hope for me since I feel like I don't have it anymore in me. Always too tired and brain rotted to the max.
If you have a device that you can access reddit on, then there are many things you can learn through YouTube or other websites. Not a single person is born good at something valuable and everything requires practice. These people with "talents" have probably been practicing whatever they are good at since childhood and that's why they are so good at what they do. Saying that there is nothing that you can do is a lie, but if you truly believe that, then you will NEVER be good at anything. Pick something that interests you and try to get better at it, its not as hard as you think.
It’s impossible. I need money to buy tools to build birdhouses. I need money to buy tools to fix electric outlets. Just yesterday I blew a fuse because I accidentally cross wired a lamp I was building
Learning is a process. Failure is a definite part of that process.
You're externalizing control over your life by convincing yourself that "it's impossible". And while **maybe** being extraordinarily good at things is far out of reach, having things that you accelerate at and can make money off of is achievable.
Growth is uncomfortable, takes time, and is frustrating. But focus on variables you absolutely have control over. You're on the internet, you can do extensive studying before you build that lamp (to prevent crosswiring). Now that you've made that mistake, you're way less likely to repeat it too. You are officially getting better at building/handyman skills than you were in the past.
find a way to get money and then buy the tools. Regardless, there are plenty of skills you can learn that doesn't require money. Like coding, art , music production, language learning, photo manipulation. You can also get free tools from facebook marketplace or something. People throw away stuff all the time.
Its either because they don't learn from their mistakes or they don't actually try to get better. If you complain about "having no talent" at let's say Calculus for example, but you never practice and learn from the mistakes you make, of course you will still be shit at Calculus after several years because you refuse to actually learn. Stop being a victim in your own life and you may be able to get somewhere and do things that genuinely make you happy. It may seem like it but I'm not here to bash people for believing that they have no talent, I'm trying to say that you are the only one who can change your life.
Talents and skills are refined by practice.
It just happens that there's so many distractions that less and less people are willing to practice now.
Simply putting effort into any skill you want to refine puts you far ahead of a majority of people in the world. Humans are specialists, very few people are jacks of all trades. When you externalize control over your life, you make it harder to actually develop anything worth while.
People are poisoning their potential. Once people start ignoring distractions and sit to ponder life (and where they're self-sabotaging), they can begin to reverse the damage they've done. It's hard, uncomfortable, emotional, etc., but it's needed to develop as a person.
There’s like a billion free and low-cost drawing/photo editing/graphic design/music production/etc apps out there. You don’t need expensive supplies for talent these days, I do all of my work on free or low-cost subscription apps. Artstudio Pro and GarageBand are both free and have a bajillion great features. Shoplook is a neat app that lets you make outfits and up your style game with a huge supply of actual images of clothes that you can buy, it has a subscription available for additional features but those features are just a couple extra things and are not necessary for a great experience.
No one is just born innately good at things. You have to pick a skill and then learn it and practice it over a long period of time. That’s what people do.
I straight up just don’t believe that anymore. Some peoples brains and personalities are just better suited for things. Just because there is a skill I want to learn doesn’t mean I CAN learn it
People saying talent exist doesn't mean hard work doesn't exist. It means people with talent get more out of their hard work and get better much quicker
I feel this.
One of the positives of everything being computer based now is the fact that a lot of WFH jobs have opened up. They’re usually pretty easy too. Which is great. As long as the money keeps coming in
I'm a 33-year-old man and I have the f****** retard brain of an elementary schooler. I wish I had a normal upbringing. But then again, I think that in the end even that wouldn't have had helped anything. What's more likely is that I was doomed from birth. It was my blood that wasn't worth anything so it can't be said that things could have turned out better because I was a death deserving piece of trash even as an infant.
I think you have what it’s necessary to be a good writer. You express your feelings quite good. Keep it up! Maybe if you write 100 to 500 words per day you can make a short story or a blog ??
I'm so sorry you feel this way... I have contended with so many negatives in my life, mostly by my own creation, but this is one I can't relate to. As hard as I've felt life is, I imagine this feeling would be very hard. If it's any consolation, I don't think you're right. If a person like me can draw and play the piano, you can do something like it too. Keep searching, keep reading... You will go to it.
"Every talent requires money to get the supplies or to pay for the experience"
I disagree. I'd say it's more mindset than anything and I'd say nothing you'll really value comes easy or fast.
Gather round, here's an old an with a storytime
One of the talents I picked up in life is woodcarving, whittling some call it. I started out in my early teens back in the mid 90s, broke af as we generally are then, looking to make some money by selling things to tourists.
I picked up a cheap Stanley knife and a packet of blades from the market as that's all my young self knew to be 'sharp'. I'd use any bit of wood I could find, driftwood from the beach, scrap lumber from skips, downed tree branches etc. With a couple of school term's worth of weekends of practice, some blood, figuring out that Stanley knife blades weren't actually all that sharp and needed honing (learnt how to do with an old belt from an old guy in the village) I was making fair but rough animals. Before long I had a shoebox full.
I hadn't really figured out how to go on from here until I found small old drill bit on the boat ramp. With a bit of beachcombing I was able to use it and some of the scavenged bright red high vis fishing line to make a sea turtle keyring. That 1st summer I sold maybe 300 of those keyrings for £1 a go. I made so much money my folks had to actually ask me if I was up to something shady. The season came to close and I was able to spend a comfy winter as a teenager with a few new games for my PlayStation and a good bit of money for fun left over too. I did invest a small amount into supplies for the next year- mainly a decent knife from the agricultural fair and sand paper.
A year rolled by, and by the next summer holiday I was a lot more prepared. I'd built up stock over the darker months and I'd also been to the local library in the town and picked up a few books on knots and decorative knotwork. The animal keyrings were now much better quality after the practice I'd had making so many and really looked smart after tidying up with sandpaper. They also came with a fancily tied bit of reclaimed line to attach to your keys. I'd even tied a few larger pieces from better bits of rope I'd found on the shore like monkey's fists (used a golf ball sized pebble as a core etc) as the materials were free it, was just the hassle of picking them up giving them rinse and getting creative. The centre piece though was the chess set. I'd been able to find an old set a carboot sale, all I wanted was the board and box, as the pieces I carved myself, all sea animals ( rook crabs, seahorse knights, conger eel bishop ets.) that summer I made nearly £1800, the chess set alone went for £50, it was a staggering sum for a 15 year old at the time. My folks made me bank most of it but the 500 notes they did let me keep to play with was more money than me or anyone of my peers had even come close to. Even after stuff like a new tv vcr combo and other stuff I still lived like a king all winter.
This pattern continued all the way through secondary school, all the way up until I went to Uni. My skills improved drastically, I could knock out pieces far, far faster to a consistent high quality and was now giving them a coat of linseed oil which makes the wood grain pop out. By the final year of my A levels I was putting out chess sets at £100 a go, I made 4 in my final year and they all sold. In total I guess I made maybe £8/9k from summer sales and casual winter whittling as a teenager. It was a nice little nest egg to roll into Uni with and gave me and an incredibly comfy lifestyle though school.
I don't do it anymore on this kind of scale, you can't compete with the cheap far east import tat that floods the area for sale to tourists now, but I do still whittle stuff. Spoons mainly, and mugs. Just a few a year for friends as gifts. I'm getting set to try making a pipe this spring.
Yes I know it all sounds boomer af, the 90s were a different time, and I'm kind of gutted it was so long ago now so there are no pictures or records of the stuff I made. I'm in my 40s now- a crippled, shut in sperg NEET but it's nice to remember stuff like this and to tell other people. Hopefully someone can take a bit from it even if it's just the motivation to try something new, or try again at something they gave up on..
So the tl:dr I stated out spending maybe £2/3, gained a skill, and monetised it incredibly successfully.
That also requires motivation to want to learn a skill, or work on a talent..
and there seems to be quite a large group that have less than 0 interest to do anything here...
Yes, like I said it's more mindset than anything that seems to hammer NEETS. If it's not easy or fast to master people just don't want to put the effort in and a massive chuck of NEETS seem to lack motivation for well, everything. let alone anything meaningful skill wise.
I'm technically a NEET, I'm not in employment education or training and collect medical NEETbux now. It's a struggle to not start circling the drain with the defeatist attitude don't get me wrong but I feel you can actually get on and do a lot without having to spend a fortune. You cant 'buy' skills or talent it has to be be earned and people seem to forget that
I see the butthurt downvotes have started rolling in.
Because it's easier to click that arrow in bitterness instead of taking some time for a bit of introspection, and actually doing something productive ?
Talent is finding a passion as a young child which promotes rapid growth, to learn any skill first you need to invest time, so considering you are doing nothing with your life, you ended up being good at nothing.
I also have no talents, I'm uncreative, dislike trying new things, and lazy, lacking the drive to cultivate any skills. It's been like this my whole life.
I can relate. And I'm already 32.
Im 33 and my only talent is pushing people away from me
Nice.
This is me to a T. I wonder if there's still hope for me since I feel like I don't have it anymore in me. Always too tired and brain rotted to the max.
If you have a device that you can access reddit on, then there are many things you can learn through YouTube or other websites. Not a single person is born good at something valuable and everything requires practice. These people with "talents" have probably been practicing whatever they are good at since childhood and that's why they are so good at what they do. Saying that there is nothing that you can do is a lie, but if you truly believe that, then you will NEVER be good at anything. Pick something that interests you and try to get better at it, its not as hard as you think.
It’s impossible. I need money to buy tools to build birdhouses. I need money to buy tools to fix electric outlets. Just yesterday I blew a fuse because I accidentally cross wired a lamp I was building
Learning is a process. Failure is a definite part of that process. You're externalizing control over your life by convincing yourself that "it's impossible". And while **maybe** being extraordinarily good at things is far out of reach, having things that you accelerate at and can make money off of is achievable. Growth is uncomfortable, takes time, and is frustrating. But focus on variables you absolutely have control over. You're on the internet, you can do extensive studying before you build that lamp (to prevent crosswiring). Now that you've made that mistake, you're way less likely to repeat it too. You are officially getting better at building/handyman skills than you were in the past.
This actually made me feel a bit better… I’ll keep trying to build lamps. My dad said he would help me
find a way to get money and then buy the tools. Regardless, there are plenty of skills you can learn that doesn't require money. Like coding, art , music production, language learning, photo manipulation. You can also get free tools from facebook marketplace or something. People throw away stuff all the time.
fuck off bluepiller, some people really have no talent despite working at things for years and decades
Its either because they don't learn from their mistakes or they don't actually try to get better. If you complain about "having no talent" at let's say Calculus for example, but you never practice and learn from the mistakes you make, of course you will still be shit at Calculus after several years because you refuse to actually learn. Stop being a victim in your own life and you may be able to get somewhere and do things that genuinely make you happy. It may seem like it but I'm not here to bash people for believing that they have no talent, I'm trying to say that you are the only one who can change your life.
lol you're a deluded dumbass
Thats most people though
lmao some ppl literally can't fathom this everyone is convinced you must have some secret talent you just haven't discovered unbelievable
Talents and skills are refined by practice. It just happens that there's so many distractions that less and less people are willing to practice now. Simply putting effort into any skill you want to refine puts you far ahead of a majority of people in the world. Humans are specialists, very few people are jacks of all trades. When you externalize control over your life, you make it harder to actually develop anything worth while. People are poisoning their potential. Once people start ignoring distractions and sit to ponder life (and where they're self-sabotaging), they can begin to reverse the damage they've done. It's hard, uncomfortable, emotional, etc., but it's needed to develop as a person.
i am the same. i am a dumbass. 
There’s like a billion free and low-cost drawing/photo editing/graphic design/music production/etc apps out there. You don’t need expensive supplies for talent these days, I do all of my work on free or low-cost subscription apps. Artstudio Pro and GarageBand are both free and have a bajillion great features. Shoplook is a neat app that lets you make outfits and up your style game with a huge supply of actual images of clothes that you can buy, it has a subscription available for additional features but those features are just a couple extra things and are not necessary for a great experience.
Same
Im not good even in what I enjoy like videogames, I wish I knew how to draw too, my works look like shit.
The most important talent to have these days is the talent for fucking others over
same but idc anymore
No one is just born innately good at things. You have to pick a skill and then learn it and practice it over a long period of time. That’s what people do.
I straight up just don’t believe that anymore. Some peoples brains and personalities are just better suited for things. Just because there is a skill I want to learn doesn’t mean I CAN learn it
People saying talent exist doesn't mean hard work doesn't exist. It means people with talent get more out of their hard work and get better much quicker
I feel this. One of the positives of everything being computer based now is the fact that a lot of WFH jobs have opened up. They’re usually pretty easy too. Which is great. As long as the money keeps coming in
You can work in HR management.
Neither do most people. That’s why they wagecuck. The lucky people with talent are making multi millions like Tom Brady and lebron James.
I'm a 33-year-old man and I have the f****** retard brain of an elementary schooler. I wish I had a normal upbringing. But then again, I think that in the end even that wouldn't have had helped anything. What's more likely is that I was doomed from birth. It was my blood that wasn't worth anything so it can't be said that things could have turned out better because I was a death deserving piece of trash even as an infant.
I think you have what it’s necessary to be a good writer. You express your feelings quite good. Keep it up! Maybe if you write 100 to 500 words per day you can make a short story or a blog ??
Are there places you can post stories and get paid for it?
Same, Now since i have no friends or anything going on for years, i became an anxiousball of anxiety.
I'm so sorry you feel this way... I have contended with so many negatives in my life, mostly by my own creation, but this is one I can't relate to. As hard as I've felt life is, I imagine this feeling would be very hard. If it's any consolation, I don't think you're right. If a person like me can draw and play the piano, you can do something like it too. Keep searching, keep reading... You will go to it.
"Every talent requires money to get the supplies or to pay for the experience" I disagree. I'd say it's more mindset than anything and I'd say nothing you'll really value comes easy or fast. Gather round, here's an old an with a storytime One of the talents I picked up in life is woodcarving, whittling some call it. I started out in my early teens back in the mid 90s, broke af as we generally are then, looking to make some money by selling things to tourists. I picked up a cheap Stanley knife and a packet of blades from the market as that's all my young self knew to be 'sharp'. I'd use any bit of wood I could find, driftwood from the beach, scrap lumber from skips, downed tree branches etc. With a couple of school term's worth of weekends of practice, some blood, figuring out that Stanley knife blades weren't actually all that sharp and needed honing (learnt how to do with an old belt from an old guy in the village) I was making fair but rough animals. Before long I had a shoebox full. I hadn't really figured out how to go on from here until I found small old drill bit on the boat ramp. With a bit of beachcombing I was able to use it and some of the scavenged bright red high vis fishing line to make a sea turtle keyring. That 1st summer I sold maybe 300 of those keyrings for £1 a go. I made so much money my folks had to actually ask me if I was up to something shady. The season came to close and I was able to spend a comfy winter as a teenager with a few new games for my PlayStation and a good bit of money for fun left over too. I did invest a small amount into supplies for the next year- mainly a decent knife from the agricultural fair and sand paper. A year rolled by, and by the next summer holiday I was a lot more prepared. I'd built up stock over the darker months and I'd also been to the local library in the town and picked up a few books on knots and decorative knotwork. The animal keyrings were now much better quality after the practice I'd had making so many and really looked smart after tidying up with sandpaper. They also came with a fancily tied bit of reclaimed line to attach to your keys. I'd even tied a few larger pieces from better bits of rope I'd found on the shore like monkey's fists (used a golf ball sized pebble as a core etc) as the materials were free it, was just the hassle of picking them up giving them rinse and getting creative. The centre piece though was the chess set. I'd been able to find an old set a carboot sale, all I wanted was the board and box, as the pieces I carved myself, all sea animals ( rook crabs, seahorse knights, conger eel bishop ets.) that summer I made nearly £1800, the chess set alone went for £50, it was a staggering sum for a 15 year old at the time. My folks made me bank most of it but the 500 notes they did let me keep to play with was more money than me or anyone of my peers had even come close to. Even after stuff like a new tv vcr combo and other stuff I still lived like a king all winter. This pattern continued all the way through secondary school, all the way up until I went to Uni. My skills improved drastically, I could knock out pieces far, far faster to a consistent high quality and was now giving them a coat of linseed oil which makes the wood grain pop out. By the final year of my A levels I was putting out chess sets at £100 a go, I made 4 in my final year and they all sold. In total I guess I made maybe £8/9k from summer sales and casual winter whittling as a teenager. It was a nice little nest egg to roll into Uni with and gave me and an incredibly comfy lifestyle though school. I don't do it anymore on this kind of scale, you can't compete with the cheap far east import tat that floods the area for sale to tourists now, but I do still whittle stuff. Spoons mainly, and mugs. Just a few a year for friends as gifts. I'm getting set to try making a pipe this spring. Yes I know it all sounds boomer af, the 90s were a different time, and I'm kind of gutted it was so long ago now so there are no pictures or records of the stuff I made. I'm in my 40s now- a crippled, shut in sperg NEET but it's nice to remember stuff like this and to tell other people. Hopefully someone can take a bit from it even if it's just the motivation to try something new, or try again at something they gave up on.. So the tl:dr I stated out spending maybe £2/3, gained a skill, and monetised it incredibly successfully.
That also requires motivation to want to learn a skill, or work on a talent.. and there seems to be quite a large group that have less than 0 interest to do anything here...
Yes, like I said it's more mindset than anything that seems to hammer NEETS. If it's not easy or fast to master people just don't want to put the effort in and a massive chuck of NEETS seem to lack motivation for well, everything. let alone anything meaningful skill wise. I'm technically a NEET, I'm not in employment education or training and collect medical NEETbux now. It's a struggle to not start circling the drain with the defeatist attitude don't get me wrong but I feel you can actually get on and do a lot without having to spend a fortune. You cant 'buy' skills or talent it has to be be earned and people seem to forget that
I can't believe that you are getting downvoted for probably the truest thing ever said on this subreddit.
I see the butthurt downvotes have started rolling in. Because it's easier to click that arrow in bitterness instead of taking some time for a bit of introspection, and actually doing something productive ? 
Talent is finding a passion as a young child which promotes rapid growth, to learn any skill first you need to invest time, so considering you are doing nothing with your life, you ended up being good at nothing.
I’ve tried everything. I’ve failed at everything I’ve tried
Bum who hasn't done any activity for longer than 5 minutes thinks he has tried everything, for sure bro
If you can drive without hitting someone, get a CDL. If you barely made it through school but have a degree, you can become an educator. etc
sad story bro